Dr. (Miss) T. Rajeswari

T. Rajeswari (b. 1946) got her Bachelor's degree in Zoology in S.T.Hindu College, Nāgercoil. Did Master's degree in Tamil, Ph.D, and Post Doctoral Research in Tamil in the Department of Tamil, University of Kerala, Tiruvanantapuram.

Ph.D Topic: Edition and Critical Study of Bhāratha Māvintham. Post Doctoral Research Topic: Technical Terms in Vīracōḻiyam Yāppuppaṭalam. Got Bachelor's degree in Education through Maturai Kamaraj University, and Master's degree in Education through Annamalai university, Citambaram. PG Diploma in Manuscriptology, I.I.T.S., Adayar, Chennai-113. PG Diploma in Higher Education, IGNOU, Chennai-113. Worked as a Research Assistant in the project “Dictionary of Idioms and Phrases in Contemporary Tamil” under Prof. (Dr.) P.R.Subramoniam, Chief editor in Mozhi Trust at Thiruvanmiyur in Chennai.

Since 2003, she has been a senior researcher for the Caṅkam project at the EFEO Pondy; from 2014 to 2019 she was a postdoc researcher in the NETamil group A: Caṅkam.

Current research: word index of Kalittokai with word meanings in Tamil and English along with a morphological analysis and a critical edition of the Patiṟṟuppattu.

Books

• The Perunkuṟiñci (Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu) A Critical Edition of the Text, with the commentary of Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar, EFEO-IFP: Collection Indologie 142 – NETamil series 6 – Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature – 5, Pondicherry 2019.
• Kalittokai with Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar’s commentary. Critical Edition and Glossary. 2 volumes, EFEO/Tamilmann Patippakam, Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature 3.1-3.2, Ceṉṉai.
• Edition of Kācivicuvanāta Cathakam, I.I.T.S. Adayar, 1999.